If you keep waiting, you will eventually reach the point where you'll date any man with a pulse.

Anonymous wrote:No. Wait till you are 44 or so before you do that.

37 is still young enough to meet a guy who does not have kids.

I started dating divorced dads around 41 because there just are not a ton of single guys my age. I’m in a relationship with one now. It’s not ideal. I’m now 47. I wish I’d focused more on dating non dads for another few years. If I break up with my current guy, I will focus on men whose kids are grown and out of the house

Be careful, most men your age want to date women 30- younger. You will waste the last great years in your 30’s waiting around for a disappointment.

Yeah, 37 is getting there when you can't find a good single guy. Most of them are taken. I guess you need t o certainly start widening your pool of guys.

If something happened to me I would hope that woman wouldn’t write DH off just because he was a dad.

They would be missing out on a great, handsome, funny, caring man and some incredible sex.

After reading posts in this forum regarding all the issues people go through dating/marrying single dads? No way

I wouldn't totally rule them out but there are still lots of guys without kids at that age, especially in big cities.

I would take on a case by case basis.

Depends if a) you want your own kids and he's willing to have more and b) you're willing to deal with the ex-wife/stepkids dynamic.

Depends. Do you want kids of your own? have you had any experience being a stepparent? are you interested in marriage or just dating?

At 36 I found that many of the men who hadn't been married by 44 or so were never going to get married. A lot of the men in their late 30s early 40s who really wanted to be married and have kids and checked most of the boxes (stable, employed, smart, decent looking) tended to date younger women because they didn't have the biological clock ticking as loudly .

I opened my dating parameters at 35 to yonger men, single/never married, divorced/no kids and divorced/kid. I ended up with a single dad to one kid who wanted more kids but before him I almost ended up with someone my age who wanted kids (we broke up and he married the next woman and had kids with her asap).

Anonymous wrote:I would only do this if you're actually enthusiastic about being a stepmother. If you aren't, it's just too hard.

+1

Anonymous wrote:I would only do this if you're actually enthusiastic about being a stepmother. If you aren't, it's just too hard.

This. Read steptalk.org.

Don’t waste your relative youth dating guys with kids when you are at an age when there are still non dads to date.

I would only do this if you're actually enthusiastic about being a stepmother. If you aren't, it's just too hard.

No. Wait till you are 44 or so before you do that.

37 is still young enough to meet a guy who does not have kids.

I started dating divorced dads around 41 because there just are not a ton of single guys my age. I’m in a relationship with one now. It’s not ideal. I’m now 47. I wish I’d focused more on dating non dads for another few years. If I break up with my current guy, I will focus on men whose kids are grown and out of the house

Yes, it certainly widens the pool of potential dating partners, and you should go into it with the realization that he has to prioritize time with his children for a long time yet.

I would, but it was never a deal-breaker for me.

No children of my own . Wondering if at my age saying. I dads is too limiting